Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).
The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.
The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.
Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.
60d@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Just because the cause you donate to is a tax write-off doesn’t mean it’s charitable. Example: all the charities that Trump used as grifts. His entire family is now forbidden from running “charities”.
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.
60d@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
We’re talking about empathy and you immediately turn to finance as a measure of it. When it is not. Not at all.